Note: make sure that your computer meets the minimum requirements to play Minecraft, as the low system specifications can slow your game and even crash Minecraft. If you’re not sure of that, you can check the minimum requirements from the website.

Why does Minecraft crash on my computer?

When Minicraft crashes, it typically closes the game, and may report a error to show you the location of the exception which causes the crash.

There are several causes for Minecraft crashing on startup: the mods, bugs in the game, the corruption of the game files and the missing or outdated graphics card driver.

Fortunately, you can fix the crashing quickly and easily. Try the fixes below.

Fix 1: Restart your computer

As restarting PC works like a charm for many technical issues, it never hurts to restart your computer, and sometimes this is enough to fix your issues. You can just simply close your Minecraft, restart your PC and open your Minecraft to see if it works.

Fix 2: Update the game patches

Generally the bugs in the game are likely to cause the crashing, and Mojang keeps releasing the patches to improve Minecraft and fix bugs.

So you should install the patches and keep your game up to date. This helps fix some bugs that crashes your game. You can download the latest Minecraft here.

If you are using mods, you can try to remove the mods, uninstall and reinstall the latest version of Minecraft on your computer.

If Minecraft still crashes after updating your game patch, don’t worry. Here’s the next thing to try.

Fix 3: Update your graphics card driver

A missing or outdated graphics driver can cause Minecraft crashing in your Windows, so you can update your graphics card driver to fix the crashing.

There are two ways to update your graphics card driver: manually and automatically.

Automatically update your graphics card driver – If you are not familiar with playing around with drivers, you can do that automatically with Driver Easy.

Driver Easy will detect the drivers condition in your computer, and install the correct drivers for your PC. More importantly, with Driver Easy, you don’t need to struggle figuring out the Operating System, and you don’t need to worry about making mistakes while processing. That will tremendously save your time and patience.

3) Click Update button next to the driver name to download the correct graphics card driver (you can do that with the FREE version), then install it in your computer.

Or click Update All to automatically download and install the correct version of all the problem drivers (you can do that with Pro version, and you will be prompted to upgrade when you click Update All).

4) Restart your PC and try your Minecraft again.

Fix 4: Stop overclocking your CPU

overclocking means setting your CPU and memory to run at speeds higher than their official speed grade. Almost all processors ship with a speed rating. However, this may cause your games stuck on loading or crashing, so you should set your CPU clock speed rate back to default to fix the issue.

Fix 5: Configure the correct settings

Enabling VBOs for your Minecraft can cause the crash as well, so you can check the following instructions to turn off VBOs. It works for many other users. There are two options to turn off VBOs for your Minecraft: